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In the infinitely petty confederacies of the Common-room, King and Macrea, fellow house-masters, had borne it in upon him that by games, and games alone, was salvation wrought. Boys neglected were boys lost. They must be disciplined.
No luck again; the doctor was out. Faix! early walkin' seems the fashion at this health resort. But we've brought along his assistant, if that's any use to you, and he's downstairs at this moment on the door-mat." The captain put his head outside and whistled. Mr. Finucane assisted with a lifelike imitation of a coach-horn, and Mr. MacRea, thus summoned, appeared upon the threshold.
The face which the lad lifted towards my bedroom window was a remarkably handsome one, though pallid, and the voice in which he answered my challenge had a foreign intonation, but musical and in no way resembling the brogue for which I had been preparing myself. Whereupon Master MacRea instantly and with great cordiality shook me by the hand. "It is a great pleasure to me, Dr.
"Quite impossible, Mr. MacRea! I have to think of the servants." "Eh? You have servants!" "Four or five," said I. His eyes seemed ready to start out of his head. "I had opined by the way you opened the door with your own hand " He broke off, and exclaimed: "Four or five servants! It will be a grand practice of yours! Well, go your ways, Dr. Frampton I must e'en study to live up to you."
The young man whom I selected was a Scotsman from the University of Glasgow, Duncan MacRea by name, and no youth of his age could have brought better testimonials to ability or character.
"But surely," said Macrea, deserting his usual ally, "the blame, if there be any, rests with you, King. You can't hold them responsible for the you prefer the good old Anglo-Saxon, I believe stink in your house. My boys are complaining of it now." "What can you expect? You know what boys are. Naturally they take advantage of what to them is a heaven-sent opportunity," said little Hartopp.
"In the name of goodness, doctor, ain't you going to tell me what's wrong?" "I know as little as you," said I. "But, whatever it is, the Major thinks it serious; so run, my man, and say that I am following." With something like a groan, Gumbo started off, and I turned to Mr. MacRea. "You will find a cup of coffee in your room," I said.
MacRea, that afternoon, as I escorted him to the office of the Bath Coaching Company, to book his seat for that city, "on arriving at the Hotwells last evening, I naturally wished, Dr. Frampton, to assure myself that your position as a medical man answered to the glowing descriptions of it in your correspondence.
And he lurched out with some hazy impression that he had sown good seed on poor ground. "Now what does he suppose is the use of that?" said Beetle. "Oh, he's cracked. King jaws him in Common-room about not keepin' us up to the mark, an' Macrea burbles about 'dithcipline, an' old Heffy sits between 'em sweatin' big drops. "What did Oke say?" demanded McTurk, throwing "Eric" into a corner.
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